Michelle Rodriguez Says She Won't Play A Slut Anytime Soon 'There Are Certain Lines I Just Won't Cross'

After admittedly “going crazy” to avoid feeling the loss of fellow “Fast & Furious” star Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez said she picked herself back up and “started hustling.” But that’s not the only struggle the actress has faced during her career, Rodriguez opened up in a recent interview with NJ.com about how she picks her roles, while insisting she'll never play the "slut" or someone's girlfriend who then dies. “I can't be the slut. I cannot be just the girlfriend. I can't be the girl who gets empowered because she's been raped," she affirmed. “So I just said to myself, ‘Look, you're going to just have to create your own archetype, doesn't matter if you go broke doing it.’”

Sticking to her principles has been a huge challenge and did in fact almost bring her to the brink of bankruptcy. While she’s glad and proud she “stuck to her guns” and feels like people “get it” she also recognizes the continuous struggle, as she hasn’t carried a movie since “Girlfight.” To top things off, Rodriguez explained she’s still encountered a lot of sexism in Hollywood, and wishes there were women writing strong female roles in the movie industry. Of course since Rodriguez is the type of woman who takes charge, she’s considering trying her hand at screenwriting, eventually. “I can't complain about the scripts that are out there until I start writing some myself.”

When asked by NJ what she meant by not wanting to play the “girl who gets empowered because she's been raped,” Rodriguez explained she got a script once which she was about to refuse for being about a Latina who was a drug dealer, but kept reading and thought some of it was actually based on the truth, which seemed interesting to her until she lost interest when she read a rape scene they’d just “stuck in there that hadn’t happened in real life.”